Xerox daybreak disk formatting question -- looong shot

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Thu May 24 12:36:20 2001

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Alan Pearson wrote:

> Whoa, 3 posts in one day, what's happenig to me :-)
>
> > I have a couple of daybreak machines with failing hard drives. I have the
> > 6085 offline diagnostic disk (2.0) which will format drives, but to do
> > formatting you need the system admin or tech support password. Does anyone
> > here happen to know one of these passwords? help!
>
> Yup - type "911" at the first menu prompt - after that you should get a
> lengthy
> message about how you shouldn't mess with commands if you don't know what
> you're
> doing (ie "call Xerox and we'll bill the s**t out of you for a 5 minute
> job")...
> Type "IAcceptTheRisk" at the second prompt (case doesn't actually matter,
> just
> did it for readability) and you should be in to the command prompt. A "?"
> shows
> you the options...


Great - and Thanks! I will try it this evening!
>
> Good luck!
> Al
>
> PS mesanet.com? Anything to do with the Mesa language?
>


No just our company name... though who knows, maybe I was influenced by
the Mesa Users Guide on my bookshelf when I made up the name (15 years
ago)


Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 12:36:20 BST